. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 432. Rose-Combed Black Orpington cockerel, an immature bird 1 composite of nearly all the earlier varieties of black fowls with single combs. The Rose- Comb Black Orpington is said to have been produced by mat- ing Rose-Comb Black Lang- shan males with pullets from the Minorca-Black Plymouth Rock cross used for the single- combed subvariety. The black variety was presented to the public in 1886. Buff Orpingtons (single- and rose-comb). The originator's account of the making of this variety gives the Buff Cochin as the foundation stoc
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 432. Rose-Combed Black Orpington cockerel, an immature bird 1 composite of nearly all the earlier varieties of black fowls with single combs. The Rose- Comb Black Orpington is said to have been produced by mat- ing Rose-Comb Black Lang- shan males with pullets from the Minorca-Black Plymouth Rock cross used for the single- combed subvariety. The black variety was presented to the public in 1886. Buff Orpingtons (single- and rose-comb). The originator's account of the making of this variety gives the Buff Cochin as the foundation stock, with the Golden-Spangled Hamburg and Dark Dorking as the other components. The prevailing opinion among disinterested English authorities is that the Buff Orping- ton is, as one writer puts it, "a refined Lincolnshire ; The Lincolnshire Buff is a breed devel- oped locally, like the Bucks County Fowl and the Rhode Island Red in America. The Buff Orpington, accordingly, would bear the same relation to it as a Buff Plymouth Rock to a Bucks County Fowl, or an improved Rhode Island Red to the ordinary red fowl of the Little Compton farms. Whatever the facts as to the original stock, here again there is no doubt that when the variety became popular, any buff fowl approximating the type might be passed for a Buff Orpington, and the variet)' to-day 1 Photographs from owner, II. C. Faulkner, Marshall, Fig. 433. Rose-Combed Black Orpington pullet'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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